Bruegel

Bruegel

Bruegel is an independent European think tank specializing in economics. Established in 2005, Bruegel is independent and non-doctrinal. Its mission is to improve the quality of economic policy with open and fact-based research, analysis and debate. Bruegel was ranked first in 2012 and second in 2013 among all international economic policy think tanks worldwide by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Among all think tanks worldwide, it was ranked eighth in 2012 and sixth in 2013.

BUSINESS

BruegelOctober 6, 2019
7,699

How to ward off the next recession

By Jean Pisani-Ferry Structural shifts in the automobile industry, miserable productivity gains in advanced economies, shrinking spare capacity, and the…
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EUROPE

BruegelSeptember 13, 2019
3,851

Germany’s divided soul

By Dalia Marin This November, Germany will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the…
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AMERICAS

BruegelSeptember 7, 2019
7,942

Dousing the sovereignty wildfire

By Jean Pisani-Ferry On the eve of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, French President Emmanuel Macron described the Amazon…
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BUSINESS

BruegelSeptember 2, 2019
4,826

Why Europe needs a change of mind-set to fend off the risks of recession

By Guntram Wolff For European finance ministers, the situation represents a new challenge. When major recessions happened in the past,…
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ENERGY

BruegelAugust 24, 2019
8,406

The coming clash between climate and trade

By Jean Pisani-Ferry The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has laid out a highly ambitious climate agenda.…
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AMERICAS

BruegelAugust 22, 2019
12,859

The Democrats need to have a climate-only TV debate. For Americans and for the rest of us

By Simone Tagliapietra When Catholics are busy choosing a new Pope the whole world watches Italy and when Americans are…
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BUSINESS

BruegelMay 17, 2019
33

Germany’s even larger than expected fiscal surpluses: Is there a link with the constitutional debt brake?

By Catarina Midoes and Guntram B. Wolff Germany has a new debate on its government budget. After registering a spectacular…
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Editor's Picks

BruegelMay 17, 2019
57

Implications of the escalating China-US trade dispute

By Uri Dadush President Trump’s decision to increase tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion-worth of imports from China,…
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BUSINESS

BruegelMarch 18, 2017
23

Taxing robots?

By Silvia Merler What’s at stake: “More human than human”, was the motto guiding the Tyrell Corporation’s engineering of biorobotic…
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AMERICAS

BruegelFebruary 10, 2017
15

The EU should not retaliate against Trump’s protectionism

By Marek Dobrowski If the US moves ahead with Republican plans to introduce a border adjustment tax, the EU will…
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